CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7] — Page 137

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"It is with curious inconsistency that this

same proposal is not made to apply to the Government

Belilios Girls' School."

There is no inconsistency, and the suggestion

that a Government School has been favoured as opposed

to Grant Schools is hardly fair. The Committee believe

that Female Education is not yet ripe for the proposed reforms. The benefit of this opinion is given equally

to the Grant Schools, such as the Italian Convent or

the Diocesan School for Girls.

"The proposal that it should be compulsory &c.

The proposal is on the contrary, that it

shall be compulsory to schools desiring to earn a more

than doubled Grant. Those content to go on in the

present unsatisfactory way will remain practically

unaltered until their places can be filled by the

Chinese Classes of the Vernacular Schools. (See Section

49).

"I would further lay very great stress etc.

His Lordship though invited to do so did not

give us any suggestion as to how he proposed to overcome the obvious practical difficulties in the way of

establishing a satisfactory training College. (See

Section 94 of the Report).

Apart from that, his lordship does not

appear to have mastered the details of the scheme proposed.

"Some